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Memoirs of a Fruitcake by Chris Evans
RRP: £10.99£7.25Sunday Times Celebrity Book of the Year 2010 In It's Not What You Think Chris Evans had seemingly found the recipe for success. He was rich, famous, and now the owner of his own radio station and media company. What could possibly go wrong? As... -
Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two Goats, and the Era That Remade the World's Game by Jonathan Clegg
RRP: £25.00£16.43Essential World Cup Reading | Featured in The New York Times' 'What to Read During the World Cup'Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of the intertwined sagas and legacies of two of the greatest... -
Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality by Gary Lachman
£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585428632Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink by Nita Sweeney 9781642500134
RRP: £15.99£12.19#1 Best Seller in Bipolar Disorder Run Your Way to Better Mental HealthThe Dog Writers Association of America awarded Nita Sweeney a Maxwell Medallion for excellence in writing about the Human/Animal Bond for her memoir, Depression Hates a Moving... -
Freedom Fighter: My War Against ISIS on the Frontlines of Syria by Joanna Palani
RRP: £9.99£6.70Evening Standard's January 2019 Book of the WeekThe gripping story of one woman's war against ISIS on the frontlines of Syria.Joanna Palani made headlines across the world when her role fighting ISIS in the Syrian conflict was revealed. She is one of a... -
What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis
RRP: £20.00£15.06Revered as much for her independent spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a brazen symbol of female agency and daring creativity. She was a woman ahead of her time, who even decades after her passing has inspired Oscar-winning films,... -
Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray
RRP: £16.99£11.54The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then improved enough for him to start writing,... -
Iris Grace by Arabella Carter-Johnson
RRP: £8.99£6.45The astonishing tale of a little girl who was different, her cat and how they brought a family together.'Different is brilliant . . .' Iris Grace is different. From the moment she was born she found the world a strange and terrifying place: she neither... -
Gainsborough: A Portrait by James Hamilton
RRP: £12.99£8.60** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas... -
The Murder of Lord Shaftesbury: The True Story of the Passionate Love Affair That Ended in High Society's Most Shocking Murder by Michael Litchfield 9781784189914
£12.61The scandalous debauchery of the playboy tenth Earl of Shaftesbury sent seismic shock waves through the British aristocracy. One of the richest men in the country and master of a Downton Abbey-style dynasty, he abandoned his loyal wife and two sons for... -
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Sir Richard J. Evans 9780349141435
RRP: £14.99£9.80At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and Italy as he was in Britain and the United... -
The Boy from Boskovice: A Father's Secret Life by Vicky Unwin
RRP: £25.00£16.79Vicky Unwin had always known her father - an erstwhile intelligence officer and respected United Nations diplomat - was Czech, but it was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she discovered he was also Jewish.So began a quest to discover... -
3 Para by Patrick Bishop
RRP: £10.99£7.77Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006,... -
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell 9781471169342
RRP: £9.99£6.41'A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores. Glaciers, Arctic floe, verglas, frost and snow - I... -
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel Wilson Fussell 9781504002059
RRP: £17.99£14.20From skinny scholar to muscle-bound showman. "Easily the best memoir ever written about weight training, steroids and all" (Men's Journal). When blue-blooded, storklike Samuel Wilson Fussell arrived in New York City fresh from the University of Oxford,... -
Alastair Sim: The Real Belle of St Trinian's by Simpson Mark
RRP: £12.99£9.62Alastair Sim was an enigmatic character both on and off the screen. His idiosyncratic style of acting in films such as The Belles of St Trinian's endeared him to a cinema-going audience desperate to escape the day-to-day dreariness of an invasive,... -
Dusty Springfield's "Dusty in Memphis" by Warren Zanes
RRP: £9.99£7.67Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the... -
Bellies and Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts by Sid Waddell
RRP: £16.99£12.28Bellies and Bullseyes is simply the greatest account there will ever be about the sport of darts - as told by one of its most legendary characters - Sid Waddell. It mixes Sid's own personal journey from the coalfields of the North East with the entire... -
Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers by George Behe
RRP: £20.00£15.04During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners that White Star Line warned its passengers about them. In spring 1912 three professional gamblers travelled from the USA... -
Codename Intelligentsia: The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy by Russell Campbell 9780750987059
RRP: £25.00£18.54He was the son of a hereditary peer, one of the wealthiest men in Britain. His childhood was privileged; at Cambridge, he flourished. At the age of 21, he founded The Film Society, and became a pioneering standard-bearer for film as art. He was a... -
George III (Penguin Monarchs): Madness and Majesty by Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99£11.35King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both... -
Made for This Moment: Standing Firm with Strength, Grace, and Courage by Madison Prewett
RRP: £20.00£14.29A single moment can change your life forever. When that moment arrives, will you be ready?In this deeply personal book, Madison Prewett invites you into the moments that shaped her so that you can learn how to stand firm in your own convictions before... -
Bram Stoker And The Man Who Was Dracula by Barbara Belford 9780306810985
£20.18"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post . Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard,a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today. All, of... -
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson 9781786899972
RRP: £16.99£11.58Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to... -
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup by David Browne 9780306922633
RRP: £14.99£11.66'In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicle.' --Publishers WeeklyThe first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young,... -
Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon: Footsteps in the Forest by Sandra Knapp 9780565093303
RRP: £8.99£6.45Alfred Russel Wallace is justly famous for his discoveries in Southeast Asia, from where he wrote to Charles Darwin outlining his theory of evolution by natural selection. His career as a tropical naturalist, however, began in the Amazon. Wallace... -
Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur 9780141006970
RRP: £14.99£10.95When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes people feel like they can do anything!This is her story, written intrue... -
The Unique Life of a Ranger: Seasons of Change at Blakeney Point by Ajay Tegala
RRP: £16.99£12.94Few people have had the privilege of living on an isolated nature reserve of international importance, their every move judged by countless critics. Young ranger Ajay Tegala, embarking on his placement at Blakeney Point aged just nineteen, would have to... -
Odette Jerrard Tickell 9780755316816
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst... I completely believe in the potential nobility of the human spirit.'During some of the darkest days of the Second World War, a young... -
As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836–38 by Jill Liddington
RRP: £25.00£18.32The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in her secret code. They record in intimate detail Anne's... -
Handel: The Man & His Music by Jonathan Keates
RRP: £20.00£14.69Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from... -
A Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, Commemorative Edition: 1926-2022 The Life and Reign of Her Majesty by Future Publishing Limited
RRP: £9.99£6.51A beautiful pictorial souvenir commemorating the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. From her birth in London in 1926 to the celebration of her Platinum Jubilee in 2022, this touching tribute looks back at the life of Britain's longest reigning... -
Greavsie: The Autobiography Jimmy Greaves 9780751534450
RRP: £12.99£8.60The autobiography of football icon Jimmy GreavesJames Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves was one of the greatest footballers to have graced the English game, a goalscorer of legendary prowess. His gripping and characteristically humorous autobiography journeys from... -
Untitled: How Progressives Are Replacing Innocence with Radicalism by Karol Markowicz 9781956007084
RRP: £20.99£14.19The kids are not alright. The Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members. If they can make our children miserable, lead them to question every building block of society, and rebuild their entire concept of... -
Try This At Home: Adventures in songwriting: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Frank Turner
RRP: £12.99£8.60*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*The brand new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Road Beneath My Feet. Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process. Find out the stories behind the... -
All that Glitters by Pearl Lowe
RRP: £12.99£8.60Pearl Lowe has been a singer in a hugely successful pop group, a fashion model and a friend to some of the most famous people in the country. In the nineties when Britpop was in full swing and London was officially the coolest place on the planet, Pearl... -
GWAIPO - A Forbidden Love Story by Kathryn P. Fong 9781800749931
RRP: £9.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800749931Author Kathryn P. FongFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Billy Liddell: A Family Portrait of a Liverpool Icon by Peter Jones 9781785318764
RRP: £19.99£14.28Liddell at One Hundred celebrates the life of Liverpool and Scotland legend Billy Liddell. Born in Fife in 1922, Billy made the move from Scotland to Liverpool at 16, but the Second World War delayed his debut. After serving in the RAF as a navigator, he... -
A Walk Against the Stream: A Rhodesian National Service Officer's Story of the Bush War by Tony Ballinger 9781910294437
£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294437Author Tony BallingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor Robert Schnakenberg 9781594748011
RRP: £17.99£12.54The New York Times Best Seller. Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter-and all fun-this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving...